Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
Scientists Daniel and Kelly cannot stop talking about our amazing, wonderful, weird Universe! Each episode is a fun, easy-to-understand, and in-depth explanation of topics in science, from particles to black holes to moon colonies to ecosystems to parasites and everything else in the Universe!
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Episodes (845)
Relativistic beaming
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Can we explore the galaxy with self-replicating probes?
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Listener Questions #18
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What came before the Big Bang?
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The Mysteries of Magnetism
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Does physics have to be causal and local?
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Zombie ants
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How does scientific peer review work?
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How are scientific discoveries made?
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How long will Moore's Law continue boosting computing power? (featuring Dr. Adam...
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Is the Universe Fine-tuned for life?
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Phage therapy (featuring Dr. Katrine Whiteson)
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Listener Questions #17
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Why do we sleep and dream? (featuring Dr. Gina Poe)
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What are paraparticles?
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Xenotransplantation
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Unraveling misleading popular science
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Listener Questions #16
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What is toponium?
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Killing the Speckled Monster: How We Eradicated Smallpox
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Listener Questions #15
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Can particle beams be used to treat cancer?
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Could stars have black holes at their cores?
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Going under: The history and mechanisms of general anesthesia
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Listener Questions #14
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How to become a parasite
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Should we be worried about overpopulation or depopulation?
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Listener Questions #13
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How do we know what elements the Universe is made of?
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Why are stars different colors?
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Did Colossal bring back the dire wolf?
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Listener Questions #12
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What is the quantum internet?
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Can humans survive interstellar travel?
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Is it possible to travel to other stars?
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When will space be cheap? (featuring Zach Weinersmith)
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The Martian Revolution (featuring Mike Duncan)
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Listener Questions #11
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How and why do trees get so old?
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Is the standard model of dark energy in trouble?
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Do microbes help or hurt you? (featuring Katrine Whiteson)
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Listener Questions #10
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Why is mercury liquid at room temperature?
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How did intelligence arise?
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Can we see what's inside the electron?
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Listener Questions #9
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Was the Tyrannosaurus rex fast or slow? (Featuring Dr. John Hutchinson)
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Where does energy come from?
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Are Humans Still Evolving? (Featuring Scott Solomon)
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How Does Memory Work? (Featuring Dr. Michael Yassa)
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